Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 1 | Hoover Studies East Situation

Ho HOOVER vm STUDIES I EAST SITUATION L Leaders aders in Ma Many y States Call Nomine Se Sees s B ll Came CameBY BY w. w B. B RAGSDALE Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Sept I 1 AP- AP Herbert Hoover today laid aside his his' task of bu building up a political team to battle the Democrats In the east and journeyed to the baseball park to watch the Washington Senators combat the New york yankees After a morning spent pent lit in conferring conferring con con- ferring with some ot of the figures who will particIpate in his effort efort to win the east cast the Republican presidential candidate took Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur day afternoon off resting att after r a a. strenuous week or of work worl over oyer the tho Republican party part machinery and laying the molds In which will-be will p on p go e 9 HOOVER STUDIES EAST SITUATION Continued Continued from from page 1 1 cast his own program for participation participation pation In the struggle for the dency I STUDIES SITUATION During the forenoon the nominee I went over oyer the Connecticut t situa tion with J. J Merry Henry bf f fn n national co committeeman an anfor for that state delved Into the Massachusetts Mas- Mas problem in a conference with Frederick 1 M. M Prince Boston railroad man and banker and receiVed received re- re re- re additional light upon the New York upstate state conditions from Representative John Taber of of Auburn At th the same time timo Jt It was disclosed d that several members of the cabInet were preparIng to take up theIr oratorIcal cudgels for HOOver HOO- HOO ver ver and Curtis In the long fight ahead Tentative plans W were e revealed ro re- re tor radio addresses by Secretaries Sec Sec- Mellon and Wilbur with others contemplated by SecretarIes Kellogg Dwight P. P Davis ls and James JamesJ J J. J Davis and Postmaster General N New w. w Vice President Dawes already already al- al ready has signified a willingness to come com Into the battle baUle CARRY OFFENSIVE Coincident wIth his announcement came news nets of the plan of Hoover to carry the offensive Into enemy ground In his first eastern speech which wIll be at Newark N. N J. J about the middle of September The exact date for hIs hIs' Initial address address ad- ad dress ot of tiro tho eastern camPAign Is yet yetto ct to be fixed Labor probably iris I be toe the central theme of the speech Negotiations already are In progress for a natIon wide radio hook up to carry his words into all parts ot of the country Various ether officials I and political friends dropped In upon the general headquarters I of the candIdate before he closed his desk for the week end in Ing C Sandberg g and Myers who kiI 1 before him the shIpping boars bOa views on merchant marine matters urged the tho to visit Connecticut during his trip Into the New ew England states lIe He brought the view that the wet element element ele- ele ment In Connecticut was not as strong as some people think and declared that The Connecticut people are realizing that the prohibition promises of Governor Smith are not very substantial Before the erld e d of the tho campaign the Connecticut man said they will como come to a realization that he does not promise anything One man cannot influence a a sufficient number of states to alter the Constitution Constitution Con Con- TARIFF ISSUE ISUE said that the dominant t i issue ot of the campaign In his state would be lie tho tariff The people of Connecticut will not trade prosperity for a glass of beer he said Prince declined to reveal reveal the na nature na- na I Iture ture ot of hIs conversation with Mr Hoover but ventured the prediction prediction tion that Massachusetts would be found in the Republican column in November Taber asserting that the tho rural districts of state up-state New York are dry consIdered the farm problem m the Issue upon which would hInge the votes of that section of the state Mr 1 Hoovers Hoover's declarations satisfactorily upon farm relief were lly ily received there he said Senator watson of Indiana who called upon the candIdate with Leslie Les- Les lie M t. Shaw former secretary of the treasury treasur told the candidate that the Hoosier st state te would be safely Republican thIs y ar NothIng more than a al revolution can upset the overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing margin by which IndIana is Re- Re publican the senator said and there 6 is nothing of that sort Insight in sight sIgh t. t t INDIANAPOLIS Sept 1 AP- AP Governor Alfred E Eo Smith Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidate for president wilt wiil speak in Indianapolis some time after October 20 it was learned by bythe bythe the Associated Press today The exact exact ex- ex act date was not given iven